Glenn Greenwald: Help, I’m Being Oppressed by the US

Glenn Greenwald said in an interview published late last week that he intends to return to the United States at some point, admitting that he does “feel a bit on exile.”

The Brazil-based American journalist who has reported extensively on top secret surveillance programs revealed through documents leaked by Edward Snowden said he refuses to be kept out of his native country simply for doing his job.

“I do feel a bit on exile but I don’t mean to stay away from the US,” Greenwald told the website Telerama. “I wanna force the issue at some point. I refuse to be kept out of my own country for doing journalism.”

In point of fact, Greenwald “exiled” himself to Brazil, nobody is trying to keep him out of the United States, and his talk about “forcing the issue” is absurd. There is no issue to force, and he knows this; but painting himself as a victim of the evil US always plays well with his cultish followers.

Glenn’s latest stunts make me think of the celebrity couples or duet acts whose fame rises from being seen together, but then suddenly and quietly break up, with one moving on and dropping off the map, while the other engages in increasingly desperate publicity stunts to remain in the public eye.

FBI agents began arresting Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials Monday as part of a wide-ranging investigation into allegations of abuse and misconduct inside the county’s jails, according to sources familiar with the arrests.

Yeah Glenn, you are the face of those oppressed by tyranny the world over. Why don’t you conduct a few more interviews as you jet around the world and appear on some more talk shows to tell everyone about it?

There is a person I visit on occasion who is so paranoid that I have to turn my cell phone off when I go in, leave the computer in the car, all that stuff. She is convinced that people are spying on her. In her case she thinks it’s the NSA now, before it was her ex. (who didn’t know a modem from a mouse). I put up with the nonsense, but at times it gets a bit over the top.

There is a person I visit on occasion who is so paranoid that I have to turn my cell phone off when I go in, leave the computer in the car, all that stuff. She is convinced that people are spying on her. In her case she thinks it’s the NSA now, before it was her ex. (who didn’t know a modem from a mouse). I put up with the nonsense, but at times it gets a bit over the top.

RBS

Did you tell her she ain’t all that important, or would that hurt her feelings?

How do we even know that the webcam we see is the only webcam. They could hide as second one inside the logo or lettering on the screen. Just a tiny pinhole cam, and even after you tape up the one they WANT you to know about, they still have you…

Me Too! It’s the ’ How crazy can you get? ’ Reality show American Idol style.
Can we vote one of these fuckers off the Island every week?
The greatness of America to my mind, and you can quote me Gus,,

The greatness of Americans has always been when we come together..From every point on Earth, We come together as equals. Americans. That has always been my vision, hope and goals..Politics or not..
We are fellow humans sharing the new world..The new fucking world..
I loved the culture of growing up in Napa Valley and our glorious Mexican farmers that create those 300 dollar bottles of wine that snobs drink.. Playing sports with black athletes and becoming such close friends Being in a dorm in college smelling curry for the first time and eating real Indian food. There are no limits in America. We must embrace diversity.. It is not only what we should do but what we must do..
/ Oh..Well Gus..My words carry no weight :)

To: SoFloFreeper
President Lucifer, aka Adolf obozo, likely invited Bush because he was told to and as a security chip since GH Bush is just one of many of Adolf obozo’s puppet masters. The NWO doesn’t want anything to happen to their boy that they themselves have not planned.
45 posted on 12/7/2013 11:18:30 AM by drypowder
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To: SoFloFreeper
President Lucifer, aka Adolf obozo, likely invited Bush because he was told to and as a security chip since GH Bush is just one of many of Adolf obozo’s puppet masters. The NWO doesn’t want anything to happen to their boy that they themselves have not planned.
45 posted on 12/7/2013 11:18:30 AM by drypowder
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Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) office has approved the request of a self-proclaimed “militant atheist” to install an 8-foot-tall Festivus pole made of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans in the Florida State Capitol building.

The head of the new agency, to be built from the ashes of RIA Novosti, is a conservative news anchor, Dmitry Kiselyov, who once caused outrage by saying the organs of homosexuals should not be used in transplants.

It is my money that prints my posters and T-shirts. It is my toil that distributes my artwork and products. I took the risks. I took the chances. If I fail, I lose, not the government, not Elizabeth Warren, not Barack Hussein Obama. If I win, I do it on my own… with my own efforts… and ideas.

I pay for what I can’t do. Nobody gives me a free ride. I pay for it… so saying I did not do it is a flat out lie!

No, he was elected - but she’s still a moron because it wasn’t with anything approaching a majority.

IIRC (and I probably don’t, correct me as needed) — they had a parliamentary system, the Nazis were non-negligible minority who maneuvered their way into the governing coalition, then they did something violent to the rest of their coalition and blew up the Reichstag (framing the faction they most opposed)… and then everyone who wasn’t with them after that was afraid to say so out loud.

So let me see if I get her point: She doesn’t believe in representative government, elected by We The People. Well, US The People, to be grammatically correct. Instead, she believes that a small minority, doing what they think is right, should run things, and that government of the people by the people for the people should perish from the earth?

IIRC (and I probably don’t, correct me as needed) — they had a parliamentary system, the Nazis were non-negligible minority who maneuvered their way into the governing coalition, then they did something violent to the rest of their coalition and blew up the Reichstag (framing the faction they most opposed)… and then everyone who wasn’t with them after that was afraid to say so out loud.

That is more correct than what I wrote - which still makes the twit a twitter moron.

IIRC (and I probably don’t, correct me as needed) — they had a parliamentary system, the Nazis were non-negligible minority who maneuvered their way into the governing coalition, then they did something violent to the rest of their coalition and blew up the Reichstag (framing the faction they most opposed)… and then everyone who wasn’t with them after that was afraid to say so out loud.

What really happened.

In September 1932, the Nazi members of the Reichstag, together with support from the Center Party elected the prominent Nazi Herman Goering as President of the Reichstag (equivalent to House Speaker). Using his new position, Goering managed to prevent the Chancellor from presenting an order to dissolve the Reichstag, whilst a vote of no confidence in the Chancellor and his government was passed. Thus having forced the resignation of the new government, the Reichstag allowed its own dissolution. Although losing 34 of their seats in the following election, the Nazis retained enough influence to assure that Papen would be unable to form a new Government and the Chancellor resigned on 17th of November 1932. After Papen’s resignation, Hindenburg still refused to appoint Hitler as chancellor fearing that a Hitler Government would become a dictatorship. The President then tried to re-install Papen as Chancellor, but Papen was unable to gain the support of his own cabinet, including Schleicher who was Minister of Defence. President Hindenburg then appointed Schleicher as Chancellor, the latter having assured the President that he could get the support of the Nazis in the Reichstag. However, Hitler and his Nazi party had other ideas, and Schleicher found that he was unable to win the support of any of the parties in the Reichstag and was forced to resign as Chancellor on January 28th 1933. Finally on January 30th, 1933 President Hindenburg decided to appoint Hitler Chancellor in a coalition government with Papen as Vice-Chancellor.

That’s a beautiful pair of shitkickers… were they soft when you got them, or did it take years of wearing them in?

They were soft when I got them. 3rd anniversary gift from my wife. I got her some ladies Lucchese’s (Sting-ray…they’re shiny and black with a really cool texture). Only after we bought each other boots did we learn that 3rd anniversary gift is leather.

Notice that Thessalonians doesn’t say, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” It says “If you’re not willing to work…”

Note also that Jesus said it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, and that he told the rich guy to sell everything he owned and give it to the poor. But Ann doesn’t have those in her bible.

They were soft when I got them. 3rd anniversary gift from my wife. I got her some ladies Lucchese’s (Sting-ray…they’re shiny and black with a really cool texture). Only after we bought each other boots did we learn that 3rd anniversary gift is leather.

So the fiancee and I went out in the not-too-heavy snow yesterday evening in Brooklyn and picked up a Christmas tree and carried it home. Call me corny, but it was a special moment, especially with the snow falling. And I’m an atheist who hates the crass commercialism and would rather be deaf than hear something like Taylor Swift singing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.

And to answer you questions, no, celebrating Christmas doesn’t bother me as an atheist. It’s a pagan winter celebration with Jesus shoe-horned in anyway. And one of the few places where you actually get a dose of Jesus is with church hymns like “O Come All Ye Faithful”, and I love those.

They were soft when I got them. 3rd anniversary gift from my wife. I got her some ladies Lucchese’s (Sting-ray…they’re shiny and black with a really cool texture). Only after we bought each other boots did we learn that 3rd anniversary gift is leather.

On another note, I was shocked to discover that my father is a full-blown Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorist. It’s shocking because he doesn’t believe any other conspiracy theories and dismisses things like anti-vaccination, 9/11 truth, and moon landing stuff as utter bullshit.

I suppose it doesn’t matter what he thinks about a half-century old killing at this point, but if I wanted to try to steer him away from that, any good places to start that anyone would recommend?

So the fiancee and I went out in the not-too-heavy snow yesterday evening in Brooklyn and picked up a Christmas tree and carried it home. Call me corny, but it was a special moment, especially with the snow falling. And I’m an atheist who hates the crass commercialism and would rather be deaf than hear something like Taylor Swift singing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.

And to answer you questions, no, celebrating Christmas doesn’t bother me as an atheist. It’s a pagan winter celebration with Jesus shoe-horned in anyway. And one of the few places where you actually get a dose of Jesus is with church hymns like “O Come All Ye Faithful”, and I love those.

So the fiancee and I went out in the not-too-heavy snow yesterday evening in Brooklyn and picked up a Christmas tree and carried it home. Call me corny, but it was a special moment, especially with the snow falling. And I’m an atheist who hates the crass commercialism and would rather be deaf than hear something like Taylor Swift singing “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”.

And to answer you questions, no, celebrating Christmas doesn’t bother me as an atheist. It’s a pagan winter celebration with Jesus shoe-horned in anyway. And one of the few places where you actually get a dose of Jesus is with church hymns like “O Come All Ye Faithful”, and I love those.

Notice that Thessalonians doesn’t say, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” It says “If you’re not willing to work…”

Note also that Jesus said it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, and that he told the rich guy to sell everything he owned and give it to the poor. But Ann doesn’t have those in her bible.

Also, they can take any traditional Christmas song, which by itself is tolerable, and FUCK IT UP by singing it “Jazz style” or “Rap style”

Or “yodel” it, like I don’t know who the hell it is, but they play it over and over and over at the supermarket. I thought the idea there was to make me stay to buy stuff, not run out the door with my ears covered.

They were soft when I got them. 3rd anniversary gift from my wife. I got her some ladies Lucchese’s (Sting-ray…they’re shiny and black with a really cool texture). Only after we bought each other boots did we learn that 3rd anniversary gift is leather.

Go ahead and let them end the USPS monopoly and their obligation to provide universal service. First thing they will do is end 1st class delivery to low density rural areas, you know, where Republicans live.

On another note, I was shocked to discover that my father is a full-blown Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorist. It’s shocking because he doesn’t believe any other conspiracy theories and dismisses things like anti-vaccination, 9/11 truth, and moon landing stuff as utter bullshit.

I suppose it doesn’t matter what he thinks about a half-century old killing at this point, but if I wanted to try to steer him away from that, any good places to start that anyone would recommend?

Notice that Thessalonians doesn’t say, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” It says “If you’re not willing to work…”

Note also that Jesus said it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, and that he told the rich guy to sell everything he owned and give it to the poor. But Ann doesn’t have those in her bible.

My favorite bit about the Thessalonians quote is that the “work” he’s talking about is contrasted later in the letter against “idle busybodies” in the church who meddle and tell others what to do instead of doing constructive work themselves.

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Frank says:

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions. -- Playboy Interview, April 1993